You have just a few weeks left to view the "comet of the century" making its 80,000-year orbit around Earth. How To See Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Tonight (youtube.com) Comet Tsuchinshan should be visible low in the west after sunset, according to NASA. From Oct. 14 to Oct. 26 is the best time to observe the comet. Oct. 14 and 15 are the two best chances to see the comet at its brightest from the northern hemisphers.
It's been cloudy and raining here. Even on our expected best viewing day (Saturday) when the sky was super clear all freaking day, there were cloud banks in the west that came in just before sunset. I'm kind of cursed, nearly every cool celestial happening is blocked by clouds .
Missed this post yesterday. Should be clear skies this evening (finally) and we can get a good look at it. Thanks Knothead
Last night in North central Nebraska. Don’t be fooled those were taken in darkness other than moonlight. Todays cell phone cameras are pretty amazing
I got a glimpse of it thru my spooring scope. The moon is really washing it out for the naked eye, still visible sporadically but better with binoculars or spotting scope.
As with any night sky watching, darker is better. There was enough light pollution when I took the first photo( I didn’t post that one) that I couldn’t see it with the naked eye, but it showed up in the picture so I found a little darker location. Bright moon isn’t helping. The way I understand, as the days pass it will continue to appear higher in the sky and be visible for a longer period, but will also become further away and hence less bright and less tail visible. I believe tomorrow is the last day of optimum viewing, but still viewable for an awhile. Maybe up to a little more than a week
Finally got a good sighting! A decent pair of binoculars did the trick. Can’t seem to get on it w my phone camera.
I went out last night and got a few pictures with my phone. Not as good as the previous ones. We have clouds tonight and a chance of rain tomorrow. I’ll gladly take not being able to see the comet again if we can get some rain. Lately comet sightings have been way more frequent than rain around here. We haven’t had a Measurable rain in months.
After downloading a compass app and finding 273*W, last night I was finally able to see it (thru binoculars) and take pictures. Unfortunately, my phone does not take night shots well (even on night setting and a 3-5 second shot), and there are a bunch of challenges I was fighting anyway (besides not being able to see it by eye). I took about 10 pictures, but this is the only one that I could see anything. What, you couldn't see it? After lightning and cropping and zooming the picture, it barely appears in the middle of the below Unfortunately, the direction is the worst it can be for viewing at my place because of the lights from the neighbors', the street lamp, and the rising ground. In other news, is I found out the front of my house doesn't face west, or the few ticks west that I thought it faced, but faces to a full 306* NW.
